Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Celebrating with style

A beach party in the mountains? That’s not everyone’s idea of après-ski. If you’re looking for a place to chill, enjoy some jazz or go all-out glamorous, check out these three locations.

Beach Mood at Altitude

If the après-ski music at the Kristalhütte in Zillertal sounds suspiciously like the legendary Café del Mar compilations, it’s because that‘s what is: DJs from the Balearic Islands often play here in the Austrian Alps. Equally fantastic: the view from nearly 2200 meters up.

Wild or Relaxed

Dance, house, electro: The Archiv Bar in Lech am Arlberg is just the place to party the night away, whereas at the Fux, you can enjoy a fireside evening of sophisticated jazz with Scotch, wines and cigars laid on.

All in the Name

At King’s Club, the legendary disco in the noble ski resort St. Moritz, the champagne flows freely for an international crowd of stars, who come to see and be seen. But to make it past the bouncers at this exclusive nightspot in the elegant Badrutt’s Palace Hotel, they have to be dressed appropriately.

It takes two…

The best place to see and learn to dance the tango is Buenos Aires, where the sensual dance was born and where the annual International Tango Festival and world championships take place (August 9 – 22).

Towering talent

A master poised between Classicism and Avantgarde: MoMA New York is showing sculptures (photo: “Endless Column”) and photographs by the Romanian-French artist Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957) through the end of February next year.

Big beat time

With their eclectic mix of house, hip-hop and indie pop, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, aka The Chemical Brothers, can still whip up a storm on the dance floor two decades on. The Manchester band’s videos and light shows are legendary. Catch them live in Munich on Aug. 17.